Description
Book SynopsisSuitable for those in medical anthropology, philosophy, and the social study of science, technology, and medicine, this book looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis.
Trade Review“
The Body Multiple is a magnificent achievement. Annemarie Mol deftly reveals in compelling language how ontologies are not transcendent but are brought about in practice. Focusing on the body and disease, her ethnography of the manipulation of knowledge, and not the objects of knowledge, forces us to comprehend reality as multiple. This book will, without doubt, move the philosophy and anthropology of medicine to new heights.”—Margaret Lock, McGill University
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The Body Multiple is compelling, wonderfully and sometimes slyly well-written, and full of innovative insights into ‘actually existing medical practice.’ Mol’s parallel text is well-placed intellectually in relation to her primary research text on atherosclerosis, and it provides a powerful teaching tool on how to think through and with science studies literatures when conducting an empirical project.”
—Rayna Rapp, New York University
Table of ContentsPreface vii
1. Doing Disease 1
2. Different Atheroscleroses 29
3. Coordination 53
4. Distribution 87
5. Inclusion 119
6. Doing Theory 151
Bibliography 185
Index 191
